American moved from Washington state to Osaka . His mother bought a house for $63,000
I am still amazed how cheap property is in Japan
Do you see more Americans buying property there ? Do you think prices will eventually go up due to foreigners buying ?
88% of dying patients reported dreaming of loved ones who had already died.
Dr Christopher Kerr has spent almost 30 years caring for people in their final days of life.
During that time, he and his team have interviewed over 1,500 dying patients to understand something that medicine has historically paid very little attention to. What people actually experience as they approach death.
Christopher is a hospice doctor and researcher whose work explores the dreams and visions people have towards the end of their lives and why so many describe these experiences as comforting rather than frightening.
What makes his work particularly interesting is that he's actually recorded patients talking about these experiences, rather than relying entirely on what other people remember them saying.
And some of what he's discovered challenges the assumptions we have about dying.
We discussed things like:
- Why 88% of patients in his research reported dreams of deceased loved ones.
- What actually matters most to people in their final days.
- Why children experience dying differently from adults.
- What he's learned from interviewing 750 grieving families.
- Whether there is any evidence of life after death.
Christopher also brought footage of patients describing what they were seeing and experiencing in the weeks before their deaths, which gave us an opportunity to hear directly from the people behind his research.
There's still a lot we don't understand about death, and Christopher is very open about that. But what I found particularly valuable was hearing from someone who has spent decades listening to people at a point in their lives most of us know very little about.
This conversation covers some difficult subjects, particularly for anyone who has lost someone close to them, but I think there's a lot here worth understanding while we're still here.
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Elon Musk says Starship’s fuel is mostly oxygen and easy to make on Mars, so a propellant depot there turns it into a generalized transport to anywhere in the solar system
“Yes, and actually it’s mostly going to be an oxygen plant, but it’s because it’s 78% oxygen, 22% fuel. But the fuel is a simple fuel that is easy to create on Mars and many other parts of the solar system."
"So basically, and it’s all propulsive landing, no parachutes, nothing thrown away, it has a heat shield that’s capable of entering on Earth or Mars."
"We could even potentially go to Venus, but you don’t want to go there. Venus is hell, almost literally."
"But you could, it’s a generalized method of transport to anywhere in the solar system because the point at which you have a propellant depot on Mars, you can then travel to the asteroid belt and to the moons of Jupiter and then to Saturn and ultimately anywhere in the solar system.”
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This is profound. Think about it for a second:
Are Nvidia chips really that scarce?
How much gold and oil is still out there?
Bitcoin is the solution!
Buffett was asked how he'd make 50% a year if he had to start over.
His answer wasn't a strategy. It was a workload.
At 20 or 21, he went through Moody's Transportation manual a couple of times.
~1,500 pages. Hundreds of railroad companies.
He read about every single one.
Why?
Small money can buy things big money can't touch.
A bond that's secretly a stock. A stock that's secretly a bond.
That's what impressed Charlie Munger when they first met.
Buffett knew every detail of small companies Charlie assumed he'd never heard of.
Then the part nobody quotes:
it only works if you actually love the game. Bridge, chess, or hunting undervalued securities.
You want the 50%.
You don't want 1,500 pages of railroad filings.
The edge was never hidden.
It was just boring enough to stay free.
Wise words from Ben:
"I actually don't think live like you are dying is very helpful advice. Live like you are living. Live like you got your whole life in front of you, and just be your strongest, healthiest, and best self.
Everything that I have told you is just more and more confirmed to me. Try to take over the world.
Try to accomplish everything that you can in this life. Use your strength to its greatest ends that you can.
Everyone dies. Rich people, wealthy people. Julius Caesar's dead. Alexander the Great is dead. Achilles is dead. My grandpa is dead.
It's not that romantic. I'm not that special because I'm dying. It's actually one of the most common, unremarkable facts of life,
I have a family that I love very much. I have four wonderful children and a tremendously supportive wife.
I have found my vocation in life, my calling. I have loved being a podcaster and speaking to all of you and sharing what I have learned. And so I would just say, don't let death catch you unprepared."
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Ben caught a raw deal: He’s a good guy. Please help in any way you can: medicine, donations, introductions, or helping spread the word:
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI:
"If I were 22 right now, I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history."
The interviewer asked why.
He said:
"I think it is probably possible now to start a one-person company that will go on to be worth more than a billion dollars."
"You have access to tools like Dots that can let you do what used to take teams of hundreds."
"You just have to learn how to use these tools and come up with a great idea."
That's it.
No team. No funding. No office.
Just the stack and the idea.
I just published the exact stack those founders are running right now.
Five jobs. One person. Zero hires.
Research. Content. Operations. Outreach. Development.
Bookmark this.
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
If you have one uninterrupted hour this week, I'd recommend watching it.
🔖 Save this for when you have the time.